Lung Ultrasound for the Postoperative Diagnosis of Pneumothorax in Children
NCT ID: NCT03073616
Last Updated: 2019-08-07
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
66 participants
OBSERVATIONAL
2017-04-01
2018-12-31
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Residual pneumothorax (PNX) is reported in more than 50% after Nuss procedure. It is a consequence of the introduction of the scope and bar in the pleural space and is considered a minor complication due to the minimal clinical consequences. It is routine practice to confirm the diagnosis of PNX with a conventional chest X-Ray either in the operating room at the end of thoracic surgery or in the recovery room unit immediately after surgery.However, anterior pneumothorax can occur and chest-X ray could not be able to detected the PNX. Nowadays lung ultrasound (LUS) allows a bedside non-invasive evaluation of the patient(with a sensitivity and specificity of 92 and 99% respectively) without exposure to ionized radiation, can be performed more quickly than chest radiography and therefore can be repeated several times without additional risks. The use of LUS in pediatric age groups is more recent, but is becoming widely utilized both in neonatal and pediatric respiratory diseases.
Bedside sonography for diagnosis of PNX has been well described in emergency and trauma medicine literature and it is resulted to be more sensitive and specific than portable anteroposterior chest radiography. Although there are few studies describing the use of ultrasound for the detection of surgical pneumothorax, none of them studied its use after Nuss Procedure.
Conditions
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Study Design
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CASE_CROSSOVER
PROSPECTIVE
Study Groups
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Lung ultrasound
Every patient will receive a chest RX and lung US
Lung ultrasound
Lung ultrasound and chest RX
Interventions
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Lung ultrasound
Lung ultrasound and chest RX
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
Exclusion Criteria
* poor quality of the pre-operatory acoustic window
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Nicola Disma, MD
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Nicola Disma, MD
Principal Investigator
Locations
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Istituto Giannina Gaslini
Genova, , Italy
Countries
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Other Identifiers
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Lung-US in children
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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